Strategy Partner Packages
Retained strategic advisory for ambitious SMEs — direction, planning, commercial decision support, and senior leadership challenge, delivered by experienced practitioners at a fraction of the cost of a senior in-house hire
Why SME Strategies Stall
For many small and medium businesses, strategy is something that happens once and then drifts. A plan gets written, perhaps at the start of the year, perhaps when there is a period of downturn, and then operational pressure takes over. Leadership teams often make major commercial decisions without an experienced perspective. Priorities multiply, focus erodes, risks are an after thought, and the gap between ambition and execution quietly widens.
Founders and managing directors carry the weight of every major decision alone, sometimes without an ear to listen and challenge their thinking before commitments are made.
A full-time senior strategic hire — a Strategy Director, Commercial Director, or Head of Strategy — is a £90,000 to £120,000 annual commitment in salary alone, before recruitment costs, employer contributions, and management overhead. For an SME, that is a level of investment that often cannot be justified, but without the skills, it leaves the leadership team to navigate the most important decisions in the business with unnecessary risk.
Senior strategic support, structured for SMEs
The Corvanta Strategic Advisory Retainer provides you with ongoing access to senior-level strategic thinking, structured around a clear monthly rhythm. Your strategy stays visible. Your priorities stay current. Major commercial decisions get tested with an experienced external voice before they are made. The leadership team gains the kind of structured external challenge that larger organisations build in through boards and executive committees — at a fraction of the cost of bringing that capability in-house.
Senior expertise, every session.
Every engagement is delivered by senior practitioners with over 20 years of commercial and strategic experience across SMEs, corporates, and public-sector organisations.
Digital-first delivery.
Virtual sessions, structured written outputs, and asynchronous advisory support — keeping pace fast, costs low, and access simple.
Monthly rhythm, year-round discipline.
Structured monthly sessions, written action records, quarterly resets, and annual strategy refreshes — keeping the strategy active rather than archived.
Commercially anchored.
Every conversation is focused on commercial outcomes — direction, decisions, performance, and the things that move the business forward.
Six Interconnected Areas of Strategic Support
Performance and Governance Rhythm
KPIs, dashboards, and the leadership review cadence that turns a written strategy into a managed one.
Commercial Decision Support
Senior sounding board for material decisions — pricing, hiring, investment, market entry, partnerships, and capital allocation.
Risk, Assumption and Scenario Oversight
Structured oversight of the risks, assumptions, and dependencies that determine whether the strategy holds together.
Leadership Advisory and Challenge
An experienced external voice that asks the difficult questions, surfaces blind spots, and holds direction to a high standard.
Strategic Direction and Priorities
Structured sessions to define, review, and refresh the strategy — keeping the leadership team aligned on the priorities that matter most.
Business Planning and Execution
Translating strategy into a workable 12-month plan, with the initiatives, milestones, and ownership that make execution real.
Strategy Support Packages
All packages start on 3 month commitments
We offer services ranging from lite touch guidance, to indepth direction. The tiers are designed for a different level of strategic support need. Our costs are benchmarked against the full cost of an equivalent in-house senior strategic hire. All options run on a minimum
3-month commitment, with a rolling monthly arrangement thereafter. Pricing is exclusive of VAT.
The equivalent annual cost of a single senior in-house strategic hire — Strategy Director, Commercial Director, or Head of Strategy — is £90,000 to £120,000 in salary alone, before recruitment fees, employer's National Insurance, pension contributions, and management overhead. Each Corvanta engagement delivers senior, specialist strategic expertise at a fraction of that cost — with no fixed employment commitment, no notice period beyond 30 days, and no loss of momentum on a departure.
Core - What this delivers for you
A business in this package moves from reactive decision-making to a structured monthly rhythm of strategic review and priority management. You gain a senior strategic adviser without the salary, recruitment cost, or management overhead of an in-house hire — at a fraction of the equivalent employment cost.
Your strategy remains visible and measurable rather than written and forgotten. Major commercial decisions are tested with an experienced external voice. Your leadership team retains focus on running the business with a trusted external perspective on the direction it is moving in.
Growth - What this delivers for you
This package gives growing businesses the strategic infrastructure they need but often don't have: a clear, prioritised strategy reviewed twice a month; structured competitor intelligence; formal oversight of risks and assumptions; and a quarterly written performance review that makes progress visible and improvable. The combination of more frequent advisory contact and broader written output means your strategy becomes a managed asset rather than a static document. You understand where you stand in your market, how your assumptions are holding up, and where the leadership team needs to focus next. The equivalent in-house cost for this level of strategic expertise would exceed £100,000 in salary alone, before recruitment, employer contributions, and management overhead.
Partner - What this delivers for you
A business in this package gains the full benefit of an embedded senior strategic function without the cost, commitment, or risk of a permanent hire. Your strategy is actively managed, reported on at board-grade standard, and reviewed annually with structured facilitation by an experienced strategic adviser. Your leadership team operates with the kind of governance discipline expected of a much larger organisation. Major commercial decisions are tested with an experienced senior voice on demand. At £28,500 per year against an equivalent in-house senior strategic salary of £100,000 to £120,000 plus employer costs, the commercial case is clear. The outcome is a business that operates with the strategic discipline of a market leader.
Enterprise - What this delivers for you
An Enterprise engagement is designed for organisations at a point of significant growth, transition, or complexity — where standard packages cannot fully meet the requirements. This may include businesses scaling into new markets, organisations preparing for investment, sale, or acquisition, or leadership teams that want fully integrated strategic and marketing support from a single trusted partner. Every Enterprise engagement is scoped individually to ensure the hours, deliverables, and commercial terms are right for the specific situation. Clients holding both a Strategic Advisory Retainer and a Marketing Support Retainer receive a combined engagement discount. To discuss an Enterprise engagement, contact Corvanta Solutions directly.
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